Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 2 | I have been buying it since 1967 , every single copy ! |
| 3 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 4 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 5 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 6 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |